sap successfactors compensation & variable pay · 2020-05-19 · variable pay plan template....

SAP SuccessFactors Compensation & Variable Pay

H1 2020 Release Briefing by GP StrategiesGP Strategies Company Confidential. Only for authorized users.

AgendaAgenda• Explain key features

introduced with the latest release

• Provide context for each feature so you better understand the impact

• Explain what GP Strategies recommends for feature

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2020 Release Schedule

(H1-2020)

Q2-2020

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Preview: April 10

Production: June 5

(H2-2020)

Q4-2020

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Preview: October 16

Production: Nov 20

SAP SuccessFactors will provide a five week Preview period prior to Production releases. SAP may modify the Second Half 2020 Preview Release on October 16, 2020 if any issues are identified after the First Half 2020 Release. https://community.successfactors.com/t5/Resources-and-Updates-Blog/2020-SAP-SuccessFactors-Release-Improvements/bc-p/239676#M1815

Note: Mobile and Recruiting Posting continues with a monthly release schedule. SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud will have quarterly releases for 2020

https://community.successfactors.com/t5/Resources-and-Updates-Blog/2020-SAP-SuccessFactors-Release-Improvements/bc-p/239676#M1815

Today’s presenter ...

Erik EbertSuccessFactors Solution ArchitectCopenhagen, DenmarkGP Strategies tenure : 12+ years

Erik has been working as a consultant for more than 20 years and has both broad and deep experience with optimising, defining and implementing improved business processes in global organisations. Erik has special knowledge within strategic HR platforms, including Employee Central, Competency Management, Performance Management, Goal Management, Compensation, Variable Pay, Succession and Development, Recruitment and Workforce Analytics. Erik has an educational background as M.Sc. in computer science and economy from Copenhagen Business School. Erik holds 7 SAP SuccessFactors professional certificates and has delivered SuccessFactors implementations for more than 150 clients during his +12 years with GP Strategies.

SAP SuccessFactors Compensation & Variable Pay, Reporting & Anbalytics

SAP SuccessFactors

Release Briefing by GP Strategies

GP Strategies Company Confidential. Only for authorized users.

MDF Objects Available for Compensation, Variable Pay, and Total Compensation Plan Worksheets

GP Strategies: More data can now be mapped from Employee Central; Use effective

dated MDF data instead of compensation lookup tables

CMP-9495

What is it?• You can now use Metadata Framework (MDF)

custom objects in your compensation, variable pay, and Total Compensation Plan worksheets.

• The EC Field list now contains both MDF custom objects and Employee Central HRIS elements. An example MDF object is highlighted in the following image.

Why is it important?• Customers have asked to more fully leverage

their MDF objects by integrating them within compensation templates.

• Use MDF objects instead of Compensation Lookup tables (MDF data is effective dated)

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Expanded Flexibility in Total Compensation PlansH1-2020

GP Strategies: Enhanced admin user experience and continued effort to make Total Compensation Template the default

CMP-18766

What is it? • When you create total compensation

plans by copying existing templates, you now have the option to create a plan by selecting an existing Compensation template without also selecting a Variable Pay plan template.

Why is it important?Not all customers use Variable Pay as part of their company's compensation framework, and they want the ability to create total compensation plans with a compensation plan template only.

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Enhanced Display Criteria for Bulk Download Icon

GP Strategies: User experience is improved with this

enhancement

CMP-21414

What is it? • You can now view the icon for bulk download only if

you generate a statement for a group of employees from the recently filtered list of Executive Review.

• The visibility of the icon has been enhanced to increase usability and improve user experience with the bulk download option.

Configuration Requirements• You must have the Display Bulk Print Statement Icon

on Executive Review Page option enabled at company level.

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View a List of Employees Excluded from Statement Download

GP Strategies: If using filters when bulk downloading, you can now easily identify employees who

haven’t had a statement downloaded

VRP-9340

What is it? • Using log files, you can now identify employees who

are excluded during the bulk download process from Executive Review. These logs files are made available for both compensation and variable pay statements.

• The log file that is generated records username and user ID of all excluded employees.

Why is it important?By using log files, users now have a list of all excluded employees along with their details.

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Save Confirmation Messages on Budget Assignment Page

What is it? • When you save information on the Budget

Assignment page, the system displays a message confirming that the action was successful

Why is it important?Customers requested a visual confirmation that budget assignment information had been saved

CMP-20885

GP Strategies: Enhanced user experience

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Import and Export non-EC Eligibility Rules

GP Strategies: Enhanced admin user experience; better support for carrying configuration from

Instance A to Instance B

CMP-21168

What is it? • You can now import and export non-EC eligibility rules

to and from your Compensation, Variable Pay, and Total Compensation Plan templates.

• The Eligibility page of each plan now has Import and Export keys to enable you to export eligibility rules from one plan and import them into another plan. When you select Export, the system creates a CSV file, which you can then import into other plans.

• You can also modify the exported CSV file if you want to keep some eligibility rules as is, but change some of them.

Why is it important?Customers wanted to be able to export and import eligibility rules to save time.

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Hierarchy and Date Validations for Check Tool

GP Strategies: Additional checks included in Check Tool

CMP-17967

What is it? • Check Tool now has two additional validations it can execute: One

that reviews the Manager ID of each head of hierarchy in the compensation plan, and a second that ensures that you've formatted all date fields within UDF dates correctly.

• The template configuration check — CompCheckTemplateData —has also been corrected to allow PM Form IDs with values of 0 (zero) or less than zero.For compensation planning, you must set Manager ID to NO_MANAGER for each head of the hierarchy with hierarchy types 1 or 3. You must leave the Manager ID blank for each head of hierarchy with types 2 or 4.

• UDF dates must be in the format: MM/DD/YYYY

Why is it important?Customers asked to be able to validate their configurations as much as possible using Check Tool.

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Use Bonus Payout Summary Reports Offline

GP Strategies: Useful if you need to make high volumes of changes to entry level editable

fields

VRP-9680

What is it? • You can now modify entry-level fields, both standard and custom, in

the exported file while you’re offline from Executive Review. The modified exported file can then be reimported to update the fields with new changes.

• For fields that are configured as editable can only be modified in the exported file.

Why is it important?Using reports offline allows you to edit high volumes of bonus payoutdata of employees, and that feature parity is met with compensation worksheets.

Configuration Requirements• This feature is only available if:

• You've permissions to export and edit Executive Review data• You've the setting Offline edit access for variable pay

worksheets enabled.

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Offline Edit of Total Compensation Templates

GP Strategies: Only editable fields can be edited offline and imported back into the system

CMP-21151

What is it? • In an expansion of what was previously only available for

Compensation Plan templates, you can now edit Salary and Stock tab information for Total Compensation Plan templates offline in a spreadsheet, then import your updates to Executive Review.

• This feature isn't supported in Variable Pay tabs for Total Compensation templates.

Why is it important?Customers who work with Total Compensation Plan templates asked that this Compensation Plan feature be available for them, too.

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Auto-Completion of Enumerated Fields

What is it? • With this release, the system filters the full list of any

enumerated (enum) fields as you enter characters into the enum field.

• This auto-complete feature is only available for Salary and Stock tabs in Compensation and Total Compensation Plan templates.

• Filtering unwanted options makes it easier for planners to choose appropriate values.

Why is it important?In the previous version, the system attempted to determine what specific value you wanted as you entered characters, but the full list of potential values remained visible. The system required you to scroll through the entire dropdown list on the worksheet to find the choice you wanted. GP Strategies: Enhanced user

experience

CMP-21155

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Publish by User for Variable Pay and Total Compensation Plan Templates

GP Strategies: Enhanced publishing options for Var Pay

and Total Comp (already in Comp in Q4 2019)

CMP-21523

What is it? • In Variable Pay and Total Compensation Plan

templates, administrators can now publish specific employees or groups of employees to Employee Central, a feature that was introduced to compensation templates with the Q4 2019 release.

Why is it important?Administrators requested more flexibility and improved performance in the publishing process.

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Default Currency in Compensation, Variable Pay, and Total Compensation Plans

GP Strategies: Enhanced user experience

CMP-20830

What is it? • You can now set the currency that the system uses

as default when you launch compensation, variable pay, and total compensation plans.

• You can still change the functional currency as you could before 1H 2020.

Why is it important?• Customers wanted the ability to set the default

currency to better support their geographies and business needs.

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Expanded Pay Range Matching for Promoted Employees

GP Strategies: Should be considered if using promotions

on the form

CMP-21154

What is it? • You can now define a new finalAttribute field that the

system uses when calculating the final pay range.

Why is it important?This new field allows you to avoid the issue of miscalculated post-promotion pay ranges in EC-enabled compensation templates, caused when the system continues to erroneously use pre-promotion classification and pay grade information. Note that the system exhibits the same behavior in non-EC templates when using Compensation pay matrix

Final pay range should be based on post-promotion information.

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Support for Spot Awards Redemption Partner: Blackhawk Networks

GP Strategies: The R&R feature is maturing and

adoption is increasing; consider to use if not already

RNR-3167

What is it? • With the 1H 2020 release, we add support for an additional spot awards

redemption partner: Blackhawk Networks. Note that in the Q4 2019 release, we introduced support for redemption partner XOXODAY.

Why is it important?Customers requested support from Blackhawk Networks, a leading provider of gift cards and prepaid cards around the world, with a presence in more than 100 countries/regions.

Configuration Requirements• To use Blackhawk Networks with Reward and Recognition, you must first

contact Blackhawk and establish a contract. Next, you need to configure your SAP SuccessFactors instance for Single Sign-On (SSO) and API communications. And when you’ve finished, you set up the interface to enable your employees to redeem their points with Blackhawk Networks.

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Automatic E-Mail Notifications to Award Recipients



RNR-2554

What is it? • Recognition e-mail notifications are now automatically sent to award recipients when approvers approve

their awards.

• Recognition e-mails are typically sent out using the standard SAP SuccessFactors templates, which you can personalize from E-mail Notification Templates Settings tool. However, for customers using SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, you have an option to customize e-mails either using:• Standard SAP SuccessFactors templates• Document Generation templates, customized for Reward and Recognition

Why is it important?By triggering automatic e-mails, award recipients are notified instantly without manual intervention.

Configuration Requirements• You must have access to the following:

• Intelligent Services• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to use Document Generation templates

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Delete Awards



RNR-2547

What is it? • You can now delete awards, irrespective of their status using the award IDs.

• You can identify the award IDs from spot award reports generated for award programs.

Why is it important?Awards that are no longer used can be permanently deleted from the system.

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Retirement of makeCustomDataReportable Flag in Compensation and Variable Pay Templates

GP Strategies: No impact on ad-hoc and ORD reporting

CMP-21816

What is it? • With 1H 2020, you can no longer modify the

makeCustomDataReportable flag in the Compensation and Variable Pay templates. The system sets makeCustomDataReportable to False for all new templates.

• The makeCustomDataReportable flag was a legacy option predating custom reportable fields where the system stored custom field data in a separate table (COMP_EXT table) apart from other standard fields. Existing forms created from templates using the flag aren’t affected by retirement, and there’s no impact on Ad-Hoc or Online Report Designer (ORD) reporting.

Why is it important?Few customers used the makeCustomDataReportable flag. System performance improves by setting the flag to False.

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Retirement of Live Analytics

GP Strategies: This feature wasn’t used very often. When going into Var Pay

forms you will go directly into the form itself.

VRP-9322

What is it? • The Live Analytics feature in Variable

Pay is no longer supported by SAP SuccessFactors.

• Due to its low adoption rate, Live Analytics in the Variable Pay administrator interface has been permanently disabled.

H1-2020


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